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BAKING-PAN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 4, 1919.

Application led March 29, 1918. Serial No. 225,560.

To all wlw/lzy it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM New, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pocatello, in the county of Bannock and State of Idaho, have invented new and useful Improvements in Baking-Pans, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a steam baking apparatus and has for its object to produce a device of this character whereby bread, cakes, puddings or the like may be baked in a better and more expeditious manner than in the ordinary baking pans.

With the above and other objects in View the improvement resides in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification and falling within the scope of the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improvement,

Fig. 2 is an approximately central vertical longitudinal sectional view through the same,

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the boiler, parts being broken away' and parts being in section, and

Fi 4 is a perspective view of the pan, the lid t erefor being partly removed.

Fi 5 is a transverse sectional view of the device illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.

My improvement may be made in various sizes and shapes, and of any desired or preferred material.

In the showing of the drawings, the water holding pan or boiler 5 is of a rectangular formation, the same having its upper edge beaded and provided, at its ends, with hinged handles 6.

Arranged longitudinally in the pan is a flat plate 7 of a less length than the pan and which has its ends downturned or formed with angular portions 8 that are soldered or otherwise secured to the bottom of the pan. The plate is thus spaced a suitable distance above the bottom of the pan and is provide with spaced openings 9. The edges of the plate are bent to provide outwardly disposed upwardly extending flanges 10..

The baking pan 11 has its sides and ends arrangedv at an upward and outward inclination from the base thereof, and its said sides and ends formed with outwardly extending 'langes 12. The side flanges 12, and one of the end flanges, are bent over tbemselves,

as at 13, providing ways between the said portions 13 and the flanges proper, the said ways forming guides for 'the fiat cover 14. The cover has its outer end bent at a downward angle, indicated by the numeral 15, and the lower edge of the said bent or flanged portion 15 is rolled or otherwise provided with an inwardly extending lip ,16, and this lip may, if desired, contact beneath the flange on the end which is not provided with the overlying portion 13, and which flange for distinction 1s indicated by the numeral 17. This arrangement provides a practically air tight baking pan, the bottom of which rests directly on the plate 7 and having its sides engaged by the flanges 10 on the said plate. The plate 7 not only elevates the baking pan above the bottom of the boiler 5 but provides a circulating chamber for the water.

A sufficient quantity placed in the pan or mixed dough is arranged in the baking pan and the cover is applied thereon, the said baking pan is arranged on the plate 7 in the boiler 5. By reference to the drawings it will be noted that the baking pan does not contact with the sides nor ends of the boiler. Only a comparatively small quantity of water need be arranged in the boiler, suiicient, however, to provide a circulation thereof around the bottom of the pan. The steam will flow through the top of the boiler from the sides and ends of the baking pan, but after the pan is arranged in the oven the contents thereof will be cooked by dry heat from the top of the bread, pudding or the like, which is arranged in the pan.

The steam effectively prevents the sticking of the loaf to the sides or ends of the pan, and when the pan is removed from the boiler, and the top or cover slid o' of the pan, the loaf may be readily removed from the pan without breaking or crumbling thereof. If desired. the `bread may be cut into slices before being removed from vthe pan.

What I claim is:

of water is first 1. In a device for the purpose set forth,

an outer pan, a perforated plate arranged longitudinally in the pan having depending flanged ends secured to the bottom of the pan, upstanding flanges on the sides of the plate, a'baking pan plate and to be engaged by the, upstanding flanges thereof, said baking pari being of a less size than the outer pan whereby the boiler 5, and after the f designed to rest on the;

same is spaced from the sides and ends of the anged outwardly at the upper edge of the said outer pan, and a slidable cover for the aan, the side 4iianges and one of the end bakinlg pan. anges being bent over themselves' to pro- 15 2. n a device for the purpose set forth, vide wa s, a Hat plate providing a cover an outward substantially rectangularv pan, guided t rou h the ways, said plate having a plate arranged longitudinally thereon havits outer en anged and provided at its in'g its ends ownturned and secured to the edge with'an inturned portion, said inturned. bottom of the pan, said plate having spaced portion designed to frictionally en age with y20 openingls, said plate having its sides flanged the straight flanga on the end of t e pan.l

upwar and outwardly .a baking pan hav- In testimony w ereofI aiiix my signature. ving its sides and ends inclined outwardly from its bottom and its said sides and ends v v/ NEEF. 

